From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Learn Like a Pro

by Tan Yew Wei on September 29, 2009

Though I must say that my level of intelligence isn’t poor, neither is it outstanding. I certainly could not compete with many of the academic geniuses I knew in my high school. They were the few who could memorise and recall information so fluidly that learning came so easily. So I decided to try and [...]

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Recording Your Own Practice Sessions

by Tan Yew Wei on September 25, 2009

You really don’t know what you sound/look like until you have recorded a video of yourself and then watched it. This is a short post, because it only has one message: Every set interval (I do it once a week), record a video of your practice sessions and then watch it. You will probably be [...]

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Composing Your Own Songs: Is it too early to start?

by Tan Yew Wei on September 17, 2009

Admittedly, some people truly want to simply play music in the way that it is presented in scores or other means. However, there are some people who really want to write their own songs. Somehow, there is a creative knack in some people and they really want to write something that they can call their [...]

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Artificial Harmonics

by Tan Yew Wei on September 7, 2009

This is the second part of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction“. In the post about Natural Harmonics, I mentioned that a harmonic is basically a sounding of the natural overtones of the string in the OPEN position. That is where we can subject our own modifications to the string and effectively change the position [...]

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Natural Harmonics

by Tan Yew Wei on September 1, 2009

This is the first section of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction” Natural Harmonics are called ‘natural’ mainly because they utilize the natural nodes of an open string. This means that you can do natural harmonics just by picking and touching the string at certain areas on the string with the fretting hand (usually the [...]

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